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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 03, 2004, 09:31:50 AM »
With the resent deal from Red offering a PCI, Voodoo3 and Ethernet solution, guaranteed to work, for less I don't get it why ppl still pay these rediculous amounts for old Amiga hardware that are sold "as-is". :crazy:

Some ppl are just not prepared to wait for the right deal I guess... I meen... a few months ago I bought an A4000D, 040/25, CV3D+Scandoubler, Ariadne1 and Buddha in a mint contidion (except for battery been removed) for about 215$... and a year ago I bought an A4000D in Mirage Pro tower, CSPPC060, PCI, CV3D+Scandoubler, Ariadne1, FastATA + more for about 550$. :-o
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2004, 11:49:23 AM »
Yes, i mean look at this:

ORIGINAL COMMODORE AMIGA A1200 CASE PERFECT!!

Crazy price!

@Cyberus

Yeah. I paid around £8 for my A500 PSU, these PSU are pretty dear considering they are only PSU!! How many BPPC have you got in stock?

@The author of this thread

Bah! I wouldn't be pleaseed with that! CV64/3D is not as good as PIV :-)

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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2004, 02:15:33 PM »
Oppinions... personaly I like the CV3D and find it together with it's scandoubler to be just as good as the PIV. Sure the PIV has it's custom PCI bridge and if you value that high it could be concidered more "bang for the buck" but surely that doesn't make the GFX part any better (belive the GPU to be better on the CV3D than the PIV). And personaly I rather have a standalone GFX card and a real PCI solution.

Ofcause installing the scandoubler is hell so that too can bring the overall experience down but once it works it's fine by me. :)
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2004, 02:33:12 PM »
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Bah! I wouldn't be pleaseed with that! CV64/3D is not as good as PIV :-)


It's for my A2000. I keep my Picasso IV in an Escom A4000T system.

I find CV64/3D to be the most A2000-friendly gfx card of all.
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2004, 05:04:22 PM »
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Some feedback would have been nice too, I haven't got much! ;-)

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a Microway AGA-2000 to work in a A4000D?  That would give me a single VGA monitor solution then.

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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2004, 08:27:00 AM »
@Martyn

Snipped from TBBAH: "As the name might suggest "AGA" this card is not designed for use in AGA systems such as the A4000. Whilst it can be used in an A4000 it will only promote screens with a colour depth of 12bit or less, be warned."
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2004, 01:47:06 PM »
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CU_AMiGA wrote:

Bah! I wouldn't be pleaseed with that! CV64/3D is not as good as PIV :-)


It's for my A2000. I keep my Picasso IV in an Escom A4000T system.

I find CV64/3D to be the most A2000-friendly gfx card of all.


Oh right. I knew that! Just testing you that's all! :-D
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2004, 04:24:57 PM »
@thread

Don't you just love market fragmentation?  It allows demand to rise for products that are cheap to make but not enough to make them in sufficient quantities that they're cheap to buy.   :-)

Now we know why the AmigaOne costs as much as it does.
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2004, 12:23:51 PM »
Considering the scandoubler issue, the P2+ would be sweeeeet in the A3000.
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2004, 11:36:49 AM »
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Snipped from TBBAH: "As the name might suggest "AGA" this card is not designed for use in AGA systems such as the A4000. Whilst it can be used in an A4000 it will only promote screens with a colour depth of 12bit or less, be warned."


I'm aware of that, and that's fine by me, it's purpose will only be to promote old games anyway.  It's just fitting it that's the problem - the blanking plate is very large and the video-out socket is positioned near the top and is blocked by the case.

And I don't want to mutilate the case!

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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2004, 02:21:31 PM »
Ow, well... the only way to fit it would probably be to desolder the gfx port, get hold of a prot with legs pointing stright back from and solder some whires across. That way you could get the port lower "on the card" so it fits the A4000 backplane.
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2004, 10:20:49 AM »
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2004, 11:08:34 AM »
not sure on the accelerator, but considering you can buy a brand new 52x speed cd rewriter on ebuyer for that price , no the cdrom was not a good baragin

u can buy a 48x cd rom reader for £6 brand new
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Re: Some more overpriced hardware.
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2004, 11:22:51 AM »
oh, the cdrom price is OK by me but the acceleretor.... it is an ELBOX one, an overclocked to 40MHz full 68030 but with disabled mmu (due to overclocking....)

did I pay much for this ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5137537388&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

Hell NO! includes a phase5 1260 and a FastATA 1200 !!!  :-D  :-D  :-D
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